Word: detoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
...approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good boy and wait; his reward would come. But Happy said: "The time to run is when you're in office." He went ahead full steam...
...windows of shops in India went signs: BOYCOTT ZANZIBAR CLOVES. Patriotic Indians complied, but the effect was only to stimulate the business of French plantation owners in Madagascar. And shiploads of Zanzibar cloves got round the boycott by making a detour call at Madagascar on the way to India. So last January, Vallabhbhai Patel decided that till the Sultan of Zanzibar came to his senses, patriotic Indians should eat no cloves at all. For four months National Congress pickets walked mournfully up & down in front of Indian warehouses...
...parade started, 1,000,000 New Yorkers were lined up along the sidewalks to watch it. Shops along Fifth Avenue, closed for the day, had boarded up their plate-glass show windows. Traffic for blocks on both sides of the city's central artery was ordered to detour. Some pedestrians who wanted to cross town had to hang to mail trucks...
...this is removed at one time, the owner usually dies. Scientists in Russia claim to have removed the entire blood supply from animals, chemically "washed" it, replaced it without apparent injury. Scientists everywhere would consider this an extremely dangerous experiment for humans. Yet it might be possible to detour the bloodstream so that only a few ounces would be outside the body at any one time, yet so that all of it would pass sooner or later through the detour where it could be treated for blood infections or impurities...